Sicily

With the RASC from Capetown and Onward: To Sicily and Italy

A most vivid memory of leaving Capetown by boat was that on the quayside as we pulled away a young woman...

RAPC visit to Sicily

We were taken from Valetta to Catania on an Italian destroyer then under the command of the Royal Navy......

Operation Husky: HMLCG(L) 14 and the Invasion of Sicily

On Sunday June 20th we left Gibraltar and headed out to the North African Port of Djedjelli, where we...

What Did You Do In The War Daddy? -Part 10 (Chapter 11 first part)

By this time the main army had crossed to the mainland of Italy and as the Allies had gained almost...

The Sicily Invasion

To begin at the beginning would make a long story so I will commence where we have the army on board, which...

Sicily

The journey was uneventful until the pilot took evasive action, to counter an attack by a German plane,...

A Special Meal and a New Friend

The farm had been occupied by a handful of Germans, unlike them we had a tank as protection so we had the...

Sgt. Brian Moss: 719 Bomb Disposal Company and 233 Field Company, Royal Engineers

In 2003, I followed Dad's footsteps from Gold Beach to Nijmegen... A week later, Dad became the victim...

Top Secret: Special Service Onboard HMS Bulolo

After training, I was posted to HMS Bulolo which was the HQ ship of Force G. We did 4 major landings. The...

All for a Lemon in Sicily

The Prince Albert was part of a flotilla of five former Belgian cross channel ships, which were converted...

Letter : Sicily — the British Invader

My uncle, Allan Stoddart died in 2004 leaving a widow, Jean with many happy memories and a collection of...

The Desert Rats, Sicily Landings, D Day and beyond

The 8th army held the narrow strip of desert from El Alamein to the impassable sands of the Quattara...

By Order of the Commanding Officer

Italian and Sicilian males were excluded from the dance by order of the Commanding Officer. Outside, a...

From Sicily to Austria

We actually penetrated about 25 miles, I think, into Austria before we turned back into Italy. I think the...

Sicily Landings: 235 Field Company Royal Engineers

Official historians record "50 Division was the only one in the 8th Army which had been continuously in...

Agira Canadian WW2 Cemetery.

The Canadian War Cemetery lies in the commune of Agira, province of Enna,5 kilometeres from the town of...

Serving in the RAF S Commando 1942-46

The requirement was basically for skilled technical personnel, mainly from fighter command, who would be...

A postcard from Sicily, 3rd September 1943

On September the 3rd 1943 the British 8th Army, under General Montgomery, landed on the toe of Italy. I had...

Lt.Whitfield's directing debut

Someone at Regimental level had decided that the Batteries should put on their own concert parties to...

Father in North Africa and Sicily

A story in North Africa where his unit took German prisoners, during the night one of them, called Bruno,...

Part 4: Arrival on Sicily then into Italy

We were transported to America Transit Camp where we received our orders — 8th Army — Invasion...

Taken prisoner: Sicily 1943

On July 10 1943 we set off from a port in Egypt and landed on D Day in Cicily, at Syracuse under...

The Iron Phantom of the Desert Pt 15

After Messina was captured and the whole of Sicily was in Allied hands, we started to prepare for landings...

Raymond Stradling

Remembers when Lady Aster insisted troops wore yellow arm bands when returned to England to identify them...

Operation Husky

On July10th 1943 when the allies landed in SicilyI was serving as a Telegraphist aboard the tribal class...

Passing the RAF Sight Test

He passed the eye test and went on to be awarded the Defence Flying Medal for rescuing nine Allied airmen...